Scalp PRP
We draw a little of your blood, concentrate the platelets and inject them into the scalp. Your own growth factors, no allergy risk, no downtime past some tenderness. Numbed first, about 45 minutes, back to work after.
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You noticed it in a photograph, or under hotel bathroom lighting from an angle you never see. Most people sit on it for a year, then get told it is genetic and nothing can be done. That part is wrong. At Club 116 Longevity on Central Park South a doctor tests first, treats what is still alive, and transplants only what is gone.
Medically reviewed · September 2026
Pick the closest one and you get the step most people at that stage are on, what it usually costs at Club 116 in Manhattan, and where to start. A doctor confirms the stage from your photographs. This is a guide, not a diagnosis.
Temples starting to go back, usually first seen in a photograph. The follicles are shrinking rather than gone, so this is the stage where medicine does the most for the least, and where a good surgeon talks you out of an operation.
FUE is rarely the right answer at this stage. Holding the line now protects the donor hair you may want later.
Prices from the published menu. The $95 online review is credited to your consult if you come in within thirty days.
The corners have gone back and the crown is opening. Most of these follicles are still alive, which is why the platelet treatments and prescriptions do real work here. A crown that keeps opening is where a graft count starts to make sense.
Often the plan is to hold the crown medically and keep the donor hair for the front, where it shows.
Prices from the published menu. The $95 online review is credited to your consult if you come in within thirty days.
The front has moved back and the crown has opened, with a bridge of hair between them. Once follicles are gone nothing regrows them, so this is the stage where a hair transplant is usually the honest answer, with medicine to protect what is left.
Priced per graft, because the count is what varies. Typical range shown; your count is set at the consult, in writing.
Prices from the published menu. The $95 online review is credited to your consult if you come in within thirty days.
Most of the top has gone and what remains is the band that never thins. That band is also the donor area, so the question is not whether hair can be moved but how much, and where it does the most good.
Some donor areas cannot support what is asked of them. We say so at the consult, and sometimes the honest plan is a smaller one, or two sessions a year apart.
Prices from the published menu. The $95 online review is credited to your consult if you come in within thirty days.
The pattern most women see, and some men. Diffuse thinning has causes that bloodwork finds: iron, thyroid, hormones, a medication. Treating the cause comes before anything else, and often does most of the work on its own.
A transplant rarely suits diffuse thinning, because the donor area is thinning too. The blood panel is the point of the first visit.
Prices from the published menu. The $95 online review is credited to your consult if you come in within thirty days.
Twelve questions, photos if you like, and a licensed doctor reviews it within one business day, in all fifty states. Prescriptions go to your own pharmacy where they are clinically appropriate. You come in only for what needs a chair. $95, credited to your consult within thirty days.
About ten minutes$95, credited to your consultNothing you can see
About half of men see real loss by fifty, and most notice it in their thirties. Around a third of women live with thinning and few say so. One visit shows which picture is yours.
Most people live with it privately for a year before asking
Temples first, then the crown, from a point you cannot see without two mirrors. Male pattern hair loss is driven by follicle sensitivity to Dihydrotestosterone. The hormone that shrinks sensitive follicles in pattern hair loss. Inherited, and treatable while the follicle is alive., the hormone that shrinks sensitive follicles. It is inherited, and it is treatable while the follicle is alive. Most men wait five years too long.
The part widens, the ponytail thins, the hairline holds. Female pattern hair loss is diffuse rather than receding, so it is easy to dismiss and easy to be dismissed about. It is also one of the most common reasons women come here.
Thyroid, Stored iron. One of the commonest reversible causes of shedding and fatigue, and routinely missed because hemoglobin can look normal on top of empty stores., vitamin D and hormones drive a great deal of shedding, and a standard physical misses all four. Being told your bloods were normal usually means nobody looked at the right ones.
A hard year, an illness, rapid weight loss or a new baby sheds hair months later. Years of tight ponytails, braids or extensions take a hairline permanently. One comes back on its own. The other does not.
A transplant clinic sells surgery on the first visit. A med spa can only sell injections. We do all three under one roof, so nobody here needs to push you up the ladder.
Scalp imaging, photographs to measure against, and the bloodwork: thyroid, ferritin, vitamin D, B12 and hormones. Sometimes this is the whole answer.
PRP, laser therapy, prescription minoxidil and DHT blockers where they fit. These hold and thicken living follicles. Nothing here revives one that has gone.
FUE hair transplant, moving your own follicles to where they are missing. Hairlines, crowns, temples, eyebrows, beards and scarring that no injection will bring back.
Same lighting, same angles, same lab, at three and six months. Hair moves too slowly to judge in a bathroom mirror.
Holding a follicle costs a fraction of moving one, and no transplant gives you more hair than your donor area holds. Everyone who wishes they had started at twenty eight is right.
At the first signs, step two alone holds the line for years in most people. That is prescriptions, Platelet rich plasma. A little of your own blood, spun to concentrate the platelets, injected into the scalp. and laser, not an operation, and it costs a fraction of what a transplant does.
Grafts are permanent, but the untransplanted hair around them keeps following its own course. Anyone who offers you surgery without a plan for the rest is selling you a second operation in five years.
A follicle held is cheaper than a follicle moved
The hair at the back and sides of your head is the only supply you will ever have for a transplant. Steps one and two exist to make sure you need as little of it as possible, as late as possible.
If your ferritin is on the floor or your thyroid is off, injections will not fix it, and you should not pay for three sessions to learn that. So we test first. The panel is processed by a New York State licensed clinical laboratory.
45 minutes with the doctor, not five
You sit with the doctor and go through every line in plain English. Ask anything.
Scalp imaging shows whether follicles are shrinking or already gone. That single answer decides your whole plan.
Including, quite often, the plan that costs almost nothing because the answer was iron or thyroid.
A shrinking follicle can be held and thickened. A dead one cannot. This step buys density from hair you still have, so the first sign beats three years later.
Your own platelets, concentrated and put back
We draw a little of your blood, concentrate the platelets and inject them into the scalp. Your own growth factors, no allergy risk, no downtime past some tenderness. Numbed first, about 45 minutes, back to work after.
Finasteride, oral or topical, dosed against your bloodwork. It slows the mechanism rather than masking it. We go through the side effect data properly, and topical is an option if oral is not for you. Not prescribed to women who are or may become pregnant.
Clinical strength red light at the follicle. The only non drug treatment the FDA has cleared for pattern hair loss in men and women. In clinic, or a cap for home use.
Compounded topical minoxidil at a strength matched to you, sometimes combined with other agents. Unglamorous, well evidenced, and reviewed at every retest rather than repeated forever by default.
Growth signals and nutrients applied at the follicle with microneedling, for thinning that has not moved on PRP alone. Applied topically, not injected.
Iron, thyroid, vitamin D and hormones, treated properly and retested. Frequently the single biggest lever, and included in your plan rather than charged as an extra.
Follicular unit extraction (FUE) moves follicles one at a time from the back and sides, where hair does not thin, to where it is missing. No strip, no linear scar, and the only thing that works once a follicle is gone. Performed by a physician under local anesthetic.
Rebuilding corners at a height and shape that still looks right at fifty. Design matters more than graft count here: a hairline drawn too low or too straight is what makes work obvious.
The crown takes more grafts per visible result than anywhere else, so it needs an honest conversation about your donor area first. Sometimes the answer is to hold it medically and spend the donor hair on the front.
The biggest reason men put off a transplant is the thought of a shaved head at the office. No shave Follicular unit extraction. Individual follicles are moved one at a time, so there is no strip and no linear scar. places grafts between existing strands with your length intact. More demanding, so better suited to smaller cases.
Brows over plucked in your twenties that never came back, or gaps in a beard that never filled in. Small cases that change a face more than the graft count suggests.
Years of tight styles, braids or extensions take a hairline for good. Same for scars from surgery or injury. No injection brings those follicles back. Grafts do.
You have a finite amount of donor hair for life. We map it at the consult and plan around what you will need at fifty, not only what bothers you today.
Local anesthetic, a long day rather than a hard one. You can read, watch something, take calls.
Small scabs clear in seven to ten days. Most people take a few days and go back to work.
Transplanted hairs fall out. This alarms everyone and is completely normal. The follicle stays.
New growth from month four, thickening through the year. It is yours, and it is permanent.
Typical ranges at $9 a graft. The number comes from three things: how many grafts your donor area can give over a lifetime, how many each zone needs, and the density that still looks right at fifty. The graft count consult turns that into one figure, in writing, before you book.
Priced per graft rather than per procedure, because the graft count is what varies. You get an exact count and an exact price at the consult, before you commit to anything.
Not everyone is a candidate. Some donor areas will not support what is being asked of them. We say so at the consultation rather than after payment.
A surgical procedure. FUE is performed by a physician under local anesthetic. Graft count, donor capacity and the density you can expect are set out in a written plan, and consent is taken in writing, before you book.
Labeled the way the work is priced: by graft count, by sessions, and by how long after. Same light, same distance, no retouching.
These frames are placeholders for layout, made to show how consented client photographs will appear on this site. They show no patient and no result. Real cases replace them as clients consent, photographed in the same light, at the same distance, with no retouching. Individual results vary and nothing here is a promise of an outcome.
Shedding settles around six to eight weeks, the earliest honest sign anything is working. Density comes later: three to six months medically, up to a year after a transplant. Which is why we photograph you on day one.
Individual results vary. Nothing here is a guarantee of an outcome. Timelines are typical ranges; yours depend on your starting point, your bloodwork and how consistently a plan is followed.
We will not quote you a success percentage. Clinics advertise them with no published data underneath and we are not joining in. What we will show you is your own photographs and your own repeat bloodwork.
Some hair does not come back. Some people are not good candidates for surgery. Some donor areas will not support what is being asked of them. We would rather say all three at the first visit.
And if the honest answer is that you need iron tablets and a thyroid referral, that is a very good outcome, and a very cheap one.
At Club 116 the hair consult with scalp imaging and bloodwork is $350, PRP is $750 a session or $2,000 for three, laser therapy is from $150, and FUE hair transplant is from $9 a graft, quoted exactly in writing at the consult. Prescriptions are filled at your own pharmacy at pharmacy prices. Members pay 20% less on everything.
The opposite. Your twenties and early thirties are when medical treatment does the most for the least, and when a surgeon should be talking you out of an operation rather than into one.
Thyroid panel, ferritin and iron, vitamin D, B12, testosterone and DHT, sex hormones and inflammation markers, alongside scalp imaging. A standard physical usually checks none of the first four properly. The panel is processed by a New York State licensed laboratory and the doctor goes through every line with you.
A fair question and a live debate. We go through the actual numbers, check hormones before and during, and topical finasteride is a real alternative. Plenty of good plans here do not include it at all. Finasteride is not prescribed to women who are or may become pregnant.
For most male cases we trim the donor area and it grows back within weeks. If you would rather not, no shave FUE keeps your length. It is more demanding and better suited to smaller cases.
Not in the way people fear. A good hairline is designed to look like one you were born with, and regrowth arrives over months. People notice you look well without saying why.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. Women with a widening part, a thinning ponytail or shedding after pregnancy, illness or weight loss are seen the same way as men: bloodwork and imaging first, then PRP, laser, minoxidil or, for traction loss, FUE where it fits.
The moved follicles keep the DHT resistance they had at the back of the head, so yes, they keep growing for life. The hair around them can still thin, which is why a plan usually keeps a medical step running alongside.
The anesthetic injections are the uncomfortable part and take a few minutes. After that it is a long day rather than a hard one: you are awake, you can read or watch something, and you go home the same afternoon.
Usually not before the mid twenties, because the pattern has to declare itself before anyone plans around it. Before that, medicine and the platelet treatments do more, and cost less.
The transplanted hairs shed around month two, new growth starts from month four, and the result you are paying for arrives at twelve months. We photograph at each stage so you can see it happening.
Yes, and plenty of people do. $350, and it commits you to nothing at all.
Scalp imaging, photographs, full bloodwork and 45 minutes with the doctor. $350, included with Plus and Pro membership, and it commits you to nothing.
$95 online, credited to the consult·No deposit to book·Nothing you can see